Picture of a bird with a yellow and red beak sitting on the nose and staring into the eyes of a Cape...

"While on our last morning game drive in the Ngorongoro Crater, Tanzania, we came across several dozen Cape Buffalo grazing and enjoying mud baths near the Munge River track," says Your Shot photographer Rick Carlson. "The early light was fairly good when we observed several oxpeckers feasting on parasites attacking the buffalo. One of the Yellow-billed Oxpeckers climbed on the nose of an accommodating buff and remained motionless for several seconds."